Town comparison · Dooradoyle vs Kilfinane

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Dooradoyle or Kilfinane?

Both towns measured at town level, not the wider Eircode area, on the same 52 figures: prices, schools, amenities, social life, commute, affluence and safety.

Dooradoyle, Co. Limerick City · V94 · 1,490 people | Kilfinane, Co. Limerick · V35 · 757 people

Dooradoyle is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Kilfinane’s 1, with 3 level.

Dooradoyle leads on
affluenceeducation levelsaccess to its nearest city
Kilfinane leads on
affordability
162016

Dooradoyle aheadlevel or not comparableKilfinane ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DooradoyleKilfinane
iDooradoyle sits in V94, Kilfinane in V35. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it’s actually measured at. The town ahead on a row is the one in green. Scores and percentages are charted against a true 0 to 100 scale; every other row is charted against the larger of the two towns, so the bars compare but don’t imply a ceiling.
!Dooradoyle is a city suburb — its boundary follows the postal area (the Small Areas whose addresses carry the name), not an official settlement line, so it can run broader than the local core and the figures cover that wider postal patch.

Outlines are each town’s CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

Dooradoyle
Kilfinane

Size

TOWN · census

Resident population at the 2022 CSO census, summed over the Small Areas that make up each town. Not scored: a bigger town isn’t a better one, it just explains why the counts below differ.

1,490
Population
757

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€356k
Median sale pricelower is better
€185k
Kilfinane leads
€301k – €413k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€100k – €278k
176
Sales (24m)
31
+0.0%
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
0.0%
New-build share
0.0%

Schools, health & amenities

TOWN · counts

Facilities in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.

0 prim · 0 sec
Schools
1 prim · 1 sec
Kilfinane leads
Dooradoyle · 0 schools (largest first)
No schools inside the boundary.
Kilfinane · 2 schools (largest first)
Scoil Pól Secondary
721 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Kilfinane Convent Primary School Primary
136 pupils · Catholic
2
Creches
1
Dooradoyle leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
1
0
Hospitals
0
4
Bus stops
2
Dooradoyle leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
1
Kilfinane leads
0
Parks & playgrounds
1
Kilfinane leads
0
Sports pitches
8
Kilfinane leads

Social life

TOWN · counts

Places to eat, drink and go out in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. The residents per venue row is the fairer read — raw counts just track town size, so a big town wins by being big.

1
Restaurants
1
1
Cafés
0
Dooradoyle leads
1
Pubs & bars
4
Kilfinane leads
1
Takeaways
0
Dooradoyle leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
373
Residents per venuelower is better
151
Kilfinane leads

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

1
Supermarkets
0
Dooradoyle leads
0
Convenience shops
2
Kilfinane leads
1
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
1
0
Banks
0
0
Post offices
1
Kilfinane leads
2
Hairdressers
0
Dooradoyle leads
1
Dentists
0
Dooradoyle leads
0
Vets
0
0
Filling stations
1
Kilfinane leads
0
EV charging
0
0
Library & community centre
2
Kilfinane leads
298
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
108
Kilfinane leads

Commute by car

TOWN · from centre

Drive time from the town centre to each city centre — typical off-peak, with an estimated weekday rush hour. OSRM road routing.

4m · ~5 rush
Limericklower is better
48m · ~65 rush
Dooradoyle leads
84m · ~105 rush
Corklower is better
65m · ~85 rush
Kilfinane leads
79m · ~105 rush
Galwaylower is better
118m · ~140 rush
Dooradoyle leads
120m · ~135 rush
Waterfordlower is better
102m · ~115 rush
Kilfinane leads
140m · ~175 rush
Dublinlower is better
162m · ~195 rush
Dooradoyle leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-4.3
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-6.3
Dooradoyle leads
Dooradoyle · 4 EDs, poorest → richest
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
-20Abbey DVery disadvantaged
+2BallycumminAbove average
+5BallycumminAffluent
Kilfinane · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-10KilfinnaneDisadvantaged
-3KilfinnaneBelow average
39.3%
Third-level educated
27.5%
Dooradoyle leads
34.9%
Professional class
33.4%
Dooradoyle leads
12.8%
Unemploymentlower is better
11.8%
Kilfinane leads
65.0%
Owner-occupier
66.8%
Kilfinane leads
25.4%
Private rental
14.4%
6.8%
Social housing (LA)
14.4%

Liveability & safety

AREA · V94 / V35

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (Dooradoyle → V94, Kilfinane → V35); safety & crime are the Limerick Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

62/100
Quality of Life
57/100
Dooradoyle leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (V94 / V35) from official data — Garda crime, CSO income & census, OPW flood, EPA water, and transport/healthcare/broadband coverage. Refreshed quarterly. The dashed line is each town’s overall score (that average) — dimensions to its right beat the average, to its left fall short. Two towns can share a score with a very different mix.

DooradoyleKilfinaneOverall (avg)
Safety62425742
Affordability89100
Infrastructure8326
Family7285
Education4632
Environment6265
Economic4050
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#66
National ranklower is better
#93
Dooradoyle leads
#1
County ranklower is better
#3
Dooradoyle leads
42/100
Safety
42/100
88.4
Crime / 1,000
88.4

Affluence range

Pobal HP deprivation index, published per Electoral Division, so the spread shows the town’s poorest to richest ED. A town that is a single ED shows one mark, no range.

Dooradoyle Below average-4.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Abbey D -20 (least affluent) → Ballycummin +5 (most affluent). It straddles the national average.
Kilfinane Below average-6.3
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kilfinnane -10 (least affluent) → Kilfinnane -3 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

TOWN
Prices, amenities and commute are exact and town-specific.

Prices come from individual PPR sales inside the town’s Small-Area boundary; schools, GPs, transport, gyms and parks are counted the same way; commute is routed from the town centre.

ED
Affluence, profile and tenure are Electoral-Division level.

Published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town’s EDs, with a range where the town spans several.

AREA
Liveability and safety are wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety and crime are the Garda division (Limerick), coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population growth isn’t shown: the 2016 and 2022 censuses don’t use the same Small Areas, and the areas that were re-cut are the ones that grew, so a like-for-like comparison understates growth badly. Rent and yield are still too sparse to show per town. Built from 6 CSO Small Areas.

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